Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/29/14:27:49
In article <37EFBE7C DOT 67E2230 AT tudor21 DOT net>, Richard Dawe
<rich AT tudor21 DOT net> writes
>Hello.
>
>Martin Stromberg wrote:
>> While the o with dots is correct (nice one), o-umlaut isn't. It's a
>> letter in its own right in Swedish (although it is the same glyph(?):
>> ö).
>
>I seem to remember my German teacher telling me that an umlaut and the
>symbol with two dots (whose name eludes me) were different. The two-dots
>symbol is used in Zoe on the 'e', which is a different sound in German to
>an umlaut, which should be written as two vertical lines IIRC. Are there
>any Germans in the Haus who can confirm this?
Wow, this is getting complicated. Old German has ordinary a like
in "mann", with a small O over it has the lips like for an O giving
the sound in "got"; and ordinary U like in "took",with a small ..
E over it has lips flat like for an E giving the sound in "m u ller"
Small E also written two dots or two short strokes, and called umlaut.
English uses the same sign to mean diaeresis ..
i.e. separation of adjacent vowels.......... Zo e
pronounced "Zoh-ee " (rather than "Zoy" or whatever).
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P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P
O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O
O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O
L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L
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